![]() ![]() In Mead’s rendering, Eliot proves a deeply loving partner and devoted stepmother. Here, she wants to “go back to being a reader,” and sets out to rediscover Eliot, visiting the places Eliot lived, studying her letters, and even holding a journal in Eliot’s own handwriting. Her love affair with Middlemarch and its author, George Eliot, began when 17-year-old Mead was growing up in southwest England. ![]() In this deeply satisfying hybrid work of literary criticism, biography, and memoir, New Yorker staff writer Mead (One Perfect Day: The Selling of the American Wedding) brings to vivid life the profound engagement that she and all devoted readers experience with a favorite novel over a lifetime. ![]()
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